Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuesday. Won three easy matches in the Gallia tournament?one in the singles against a little girl named Bendit (6-1, 6-0) and two in the mixed doubles. Jack Hilliard (British) was my partner. Quite attractive, but he wore ugly shoes. The reporters came up. I wouldn't let them photograph me because I had on my oldest sweater and I just told them the truth about it. "Gentlemen," I said, "don't take my photograph today. Wait until Wednesday. I am getting some new French dresses made and they will be delivered Wednesday. I want my California friends...
...that's all. . . . "On the other hand, / would very much like to be described as having the appearance of a lucky stockbroker. To me the terrible adjective 'dainty' is usually applied, as if I were a bit of lace or a frill. Perhaps Mr. Wells wouldn't mind being called 'dainty.' I am willing to exchange...
...whole best to dwell on Leatrice Joy's "Made for Love" and leave "The Red Kimono" (Is that the way you spell "Kimono"?) discreetly in the background. Discussing even this one, it will be necessary to tread cautiously. It would be easy to get unpleasant, and that wouldn't do at all because just now the Playgoer editor is conducting a campaign to be as nice as possible to everybody and try to remove this department's reputation for cynicism and general all-round bad temper...
When informed that he had been philandering openly in Berlin: "If it were only women I wouldn't mind so much, but Sergei's trouble really comes out of a bottle. ... It is hard for me to conduct my dancing school with Sergei always raising Cain...
THUNDER ON THE LEFT?Christopher Morley?Doubleday, Page ($2). It is a children's party, Martin's tenth birthday. The imaginative little fellow invents all sorts of games for his guests: "Stern Parent," "Quarrelsome Children." Then Phyllis, one of the girls, says that grown-ups have a wonderful time. Wouldn't it be nice to be grown up? Martin has an idea for another game, "Spies"?to find out whether grown-ups really have a good time, so as to know whether one wants ever to be grown...